> The really surprising part of this story, to me, is that Microsoft didn't draft it's own, new license for this.
As always, when it comes to free software principles,
- no binary blob firmware in our OS - documentation/specifications of chips in your widgets wanted period, NOT vendor drivers---we are not slackers - we build our own drivers no matter the pain, we don't sell our soul to become lamers - "free software"* licenses with our free software
OpenBSD years ago, soon after Apache was relicensed for "everyones' benefit" as you now see, jettisoned Apache 2.x from the CVS repository and began maintaining the previosuly licensed Apache 1.x.
As per the new license terms it thusly cannot be called "Apache" hence OBSD calls it httpd!
Theo deRaadt called a spade a spade then. Search the ml's archives for yourself.
If Mad: call dell and threaten a "charge back!" Vendors hate that and will snap them to attention as nothign else.
If Really Mad: call CC company and have a charge back done. It's all dell's problem then - you are out of there.
Don't feel sorry of someone stole said property en route. That is called insurance, doing business for dell. They have processes to find it, the thief or gain restitution.
The Tesla Roadster is an all-electric vehicle, applying textbook conversions you get kilowatt hours but the main EPA figures on a car window sticker appear in miles, AND they give the Tesla something like 100+ MPG. However, EPA calculations take into account fuel scarceness, availability, fuel efficiency of manufacture and distribution. Thus the EPA MPG numbers become something like 200+ MPG. Check it out.
So it's not a simple KWH conversion. Far from it.
EPA requests input from its research laboratories on what it calls a utility factor. A fudge factor. That takes into account things like the Chevy Volt's ability to complete EPA test cycles not on gasoline power but _plug-in electrical_ power. Then once forty miles of testing deplete the plug-in electrical power in the battery it tests Volt's gasoline usage to charge the batteries, battery-electrical power that then powers the vehicle. The gasoline engine does not power the vehicle directly. Then you might combine the two numbers, add/or ``take into account fuel scarceness, availability, fuel efficiency of manufacture and distribution.'' Then factor in real world energy usage usage for power accessories, AC, lights.
You also have to make the numbers historically reasonable, comparable to past present future vehicles.
It means the reasonable (simple? you thought) conversion is a complex calculation fudge taking into account
BTW. ``Fuel scarceness, availability, fuel efficiency of manufacture and distribution'' favorable numbers means it costs me less to fill up, that is to say more money stays in my wallet.
If I can travel X miles at $0.02/mile on plug-in cheaper electricity* vs. same miles for $0.09 mile on more expensive gasoline/diesel that is... .
* And NOT worry about range with power trains as in the Prius or Volt. ** The Volt is for sale in 2010 but EPA testing new methodologies including the Volt are ongoing.
Since you are in the neighborhood already: How does Christianity address the not going to hell of those born before Jesus Christ (b.c.)? That subject just came up with my bf last month and once again I cursed my absence from philosophy class that day.
I get how buddhism, reincarnation, and population growth are reconciled, but the above? What's the wikipedia page I should read?
In essence: guns must be checked into a special routine (a la registered mail), put under lock and key. IOW, handed over, inspected, locked into a case under lock and key, taken away from you, returned to you upon arrival. As it is a gun tracking system routine the utmost importance is placed on accountability. Stolen guns are unacceptable to the TSA system. The tricks are, a starter's pistol qualifies as a gun and a license is not needed in the USA for one, and two the case containing the gun can be large enough to hold your laptop, or camera, etc. too!:-) Read one of the 2006 0r 2007 cryptograms by Bruce Schneier for the original tip.
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One note on using TSA rules to your advantage.
Weapons that travel MUST be in a hard case, must be declared upon check-in, and MUST BE LOCKED by a TSA official.
A "weapons" is defined as a rifle, shotgun, pistol, airgun, and STARTER PISTOL. Yes, starter pistols - those little guns that fire blanks at track and swim meets - are considered weapons...and do NOT have to be registered in any state in the United States.
I have a starter pistol for all my cases. All I have to do upon check-in is tell the airline ticket agent that I have a weapon to declare...I'm given a little card to sign, the card is put in the case, the case is given to a TSA official who takes my key and locks the case, and gives my key back to me.
That's the procedure. The case is extra-tracked...TSA does not want to lose a weapons case. This reduces the chance of the case being lost to virtually zero.
It's a great way to travel with camera gear...I've been doing this since Dec 2001 and have had no problems whatsoever.
Hope it works for you...
John
Posted by: John Arnold | August 16, 2006 at 08:52 PM
Visiting an automobile site like bmwusa is a flashblock exercise on clicking every new page, or digging into the settings afterward to remove the permanent permission you were forced into.
My Honda Civic, most modern cars, needs tuning at 100,000 miles. Or 10 years, I think, whichever comes first.
I would like to know if Consumer Reports finds fuel additives/injector cleaners such as STP Fuel System Cleaner or injector cleaner to be useful ( http://www.stp.com/fuel_additives.html ). Anyone have access to the online CR and can tell me what they think of STP?
> make sure that the injectors are clean,
> Injectors are clean [but people dirty them by] buying cheap gas, or driving their car too aggressively, and over time gunk builds up on the injector nozzles
You want to keep your combustion chamber, valve ports, valves, etc. as free of carbon or other deposits as you can. You should buy quality gasoline! But how?
*** What you want is gasoline that is Top Tier Gas certified ***:
http://www.toptiergas.com/
[quote] TOP TIER Detergent Gasoline is the premier standard for gasoline performance. Six of the world's top automakers, BMW, General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and Audi recognize that the current EPA minimum detergent requirements do not go far enough to ensure optimal engine performance.
Since the minimum additive performance standards were first established by EPA in 1995, most gasoline marketers have actually reduced the concentration level of detergent additive in their gasoline by up to 50%. As a result, the ability of a vehicle to maintain stringent Tier 2 emission standards have been hampered, leading to engine deposits which can have a big impact on in-use emissions and driver satisfaction. [end quote]
I found it by reading my Honda manual and seeing it's recommendation.
Since Google SMS does not offer an easy way to give feedback on their product pages they will hear my gripes here. In the past ~3 weeks I have noticed changes in their SMS search results -- FOR THE M-U-C-H WORSE!
Google SMS ==========
* [lowes in 11219] -> Google SMS had formerly understood a search request *within* a specific neighborhood in NYC. It spat out appropriate guesses like: If you meant Lowe's near Brooklyn NY here are results 1, 2 and 3 over two SMS messages. It was fuzzy and accurate. It worked beautifully.
Note that I use zip codes in searches as it is easier to type a 5 digit zip code to specify a FOCUSED location instead of a long and less focused section by neighborhood name. To wit, 11219 vs Borough Park vs Brooklyn NY. See?
However, the results recently are awful, non fuzzy-logic, with 1 or 2 results instead of the previous version's of 3 per search. Oh, and google now adds a lot of useless self adverting for their product in the guise of tips. It's the coup the grace.
So. Recently a friend asked me from her mobile while on the road where the local Lowe's was in Brooklyn. I know how to get there but I needed an address to give her to enter into her GPS -- GPS databases are so lacking so frequently that I rely heavily on Google SMS to get the latest locations for businesses. So I sent Google SMS [lowes in 11219].
** That used to tell Google SMS: search in zip 11219, or in Brooklyn NY, or in NYC, or in NYC Metropolitan including New Jersey. It didn't work however. In essence I wasted time, text money, finger calories, battery life, grief, and a good deal of patience and good will that Google will not be seeing anytime soon.
I sent half a dozen permutations of my search to get a valid result other than "check your spelling", for I know Google had the result. It had given them to me in the past.
I got a valid result when I thought, wtf! do they not understand zip codes anymore, and typed [lowes in brooklyn ny]. That worked!
Google Maps ===========
WTF have you done to it?
* Clicking on each driving direction used to bring a popup-GIF of the maneuver. No longer. We get huge Street View Flash photos instead! No. NO. NO!
* One could rearrange destinations by dragging them around on the left pane. No longer! NO!
* One could collapse LONG directions by clicking on a plus (+) previously. No longer. NO! BTW, Google does not tell the user when it makes assumptions about the destinations. To wit, I entered [10038 to fair view nj] and I had to scroll all the way to the bottom of long instructions to see that Maps had substituted something like Fair Avenue in Connecticut. WTF? I meant "fairview nj" apparently, I discovered after much mucking about. NO!
* After splining via-points by hand one could right-click and "remove this point (spline)". No longer! It magnifies instead! Nooo.
* I wont reiterate my other previous gripes about Maps.
* Oh, I hate that you have complicated the from/to entry box interface! Simplicity! Not complexity.
If you really want to support the artist, DON'T buy the CD and then go see a concert. Buy a t-shirt, even.
Fixed that for you.
Download the track/s then send the band a check for their good looks, straight teeth, whatever, anything that will shield them from a possible claim down the line from disbursing a cut to the record companies.
I look for a band run site, not record co. operated, and an address to mail a check:
Yo, Slash, Edge, Duke here's that money I borrowed for that round of coffee when we were kids.Oh, BTW, nice band.
> never click on embedded ads (the 3 or 4 times I did, it was on accident.)
Everyone acts as though they live in a vacuum! Everyone bewlievs that they are truly inured to advertising. "Honda pissed me off so bad with their superbowl ads that I will never buy a car from them!" *harumph* But, multiply that rage by 10, 100, realistically 1,000 vendor ads and pretty soon you've forgotten how viscerally Honda irked you.
"Yeah, man, but I am different, I really do remember." Really? Think now, have you really stayed away from e-v-e-r-y seller that has ever ticked you off? Over time the brand name stays with you even when you can't stand it. Time heals all wounds. After all, you're not considering much less buying Acme Cars, Zenith Sneakers, generic condoms -- your mind automatically filters your gaze onto the familiar.
To your point. Till recently whenever I googled anything (with Adblock Plus/E.H.H. turned off permanently on Google) I avoided clicking on the ads as I thought it unfair to the vendor to make it pay when the 1st link typically was for that vendor. But lately, I decided, WTF, when I need a car and Audi, BMW, Honda, Toyota are so expensive that I should care to save them money, and at Google's expense? I now click the ad links with gusto! Google ads, as have been rightly attested to over the years, are useful.
Apropos to your point, I have only once made a purchase directly attributable to google's ads. Invariably, I Google my need or the vendor, visit site, research selections, choose selection, research prices, quality, etc. Only once was A transaction made same day, same session, same cookie. But I bought thanks to Google's ad. Google was the entry point, and the vector for my purchase. No doubt about it.
You are an anomaly, and frankly I don't believe that you are not influenced by ads in one form or another. For accordingly, you know all brands, in all fields, from the outset, and you need no guidance from a search ad? Right. You don't know infinite number of people in all fields of life to have an omniscient awareness.
As much as I bitch about intrusive ads when I examine my behavior I am aware that they are inescapably influential on my, your's (their's?) purchases, to one degree or another. Living in denial doesn't help you.
Profiles. What about profiles? Are they made ergonomic in FF 3?
Safari has a browse-privately toggle. I don't want to know where I have been, my roomate, or even my dog sometimes. And they feel the same, so that feature would be happenin'!
Within days after the release of Firefox 3, over 40% of my visitors
had switched to it. Another ~50% use the newest 2.0.x version.
Would a large portion of those 40.9% not current, would they be FF 2.x users? Purposely not upgrading?
That is the case with me: I lagged to up from 1x to 2x, and now from 2x to 3x. Let them work the bugs out, up their plugins, etc., man. And maybe downgrade some of the 3x features I read are driving some batty around here. Don't assume the worst is what am saying: poll takers, survey makers, mouth off shooters. ^.^
Am I right in saying that having mobiles on contract is more common in the USA which is what makes dealing with providers such a nightmare?
Yes. On this side of the puddle, phones are heavily subsidized... To the point...
Please stop with that myth.
My t-mobile 1 year contract expired in Aug 2006
I am contract free, but
If I change my plan more than once (do more than one "conversion" as they call it), I will be oput back on contract, AND I might NOT even be told about it. To wit, you are not warned beforehand. I found out by being paranoid and asking, posing this hypothetical and that hypothetical, etc.
IOW, it's summer and I am using less than 50 of my 1,000 anytime minutes and paying ~$56.00. If I change my plan now, but change it/raise it in the fall I will be *back on contract*. WTF! "Why would you try that, I would just leave you? 'Those are the rules, sir, now that YOU have asked.'"
Furthermore did you know, that if spammers are hassling your line, stock texting spamming, etc., or your ex gf is hassling you, or some arse is hassling you you have to take it for changing your number is a conversion and will lock you into contract, extend your contract? Or, if you change your address that is another conversion and you could placed into a contract! On and on. It is a game that cell companies.
So it is not about the "subsidized phone!" I did not want one, nor was one going to be offered to me if I hit one of these hidden, *untold* land mines. I even asked, "wait a minute, you telling me that if I had not asked that with 2 conversions you would have locked me into contract BUT you would not have OFFERED me a new cellphone? 'That is correct, sir.'
That doesn't excuse his vote for it, and I wish he had voted against it, but giving McCain and the right an easy attack point ("Look! He's soft on the terrerrsts!") probably isn't something he can afford at this point
I love the guy here on/. a couple of years ago (I wish he would read this post and say it himself or point out his post of a few years back) who wrote, and I paraphrase:
If you are not voting Independent you are wasting your vote.
If you are not voting third party you are wasting your vote.
During my life I had not understood the stereotype of a bunch of ornery OLD guys, outside a grocery store, or an old porch railing against politicians, or Washington "whore" politicians.
A few facts are clear to me now that I am older. But all can be boiled down to one axiom.
All politicians are whores. Left, Right and Center.
Barack Obama refused negative campaigning, admirable. It cost him during the primaries and yet he gambled on. Admirable. But now as you say, he is going Clintonian. To wit, s/he will say what ever it takes win. I do not blame him, Republicans will say anything to win, as the end justifies the means to that bunch off assholes! Anyone remember the Jon Stewart-Tucker Carlson CNN gem.
So Obama seems brave, and Obama may be brave and principled, and Obama may be a leader to speak the truth and lead from truth but who knows??? I fell for that during Bill Clinton 1992! I rationalized: Clinton was just saying that to get elected but he will govern honestly. Clinton gave the nation the DMCA amongst other interest group non sense. He was in love with Hollywood -- see Bloodworth-Thomason's?
Forward to 2000, a carpet bagger spouse rolls into New York, claims the right to run for US Senate having never lived there, wins. Within months of election the New York Times runs insider sources stories describing the laying of groundwork for Senator Clinton's presidency run post her next election to the US Senate!
IOW, all politicians are whores. The longer I live the truer it is.
1.) What are you talking about. Wrong, wrong. I do precisely what you say I should not do and Gmail filters UCE nicely.
I own a domain, on which I have one public email alias, that is 8 years old. It had/gets spam/UCE. Gmail POPs that account/alias for me. Gmail filters the spam quite nicely!
It is not perfect, occasionally I have to "report spam", train Gmail, but nothing overwhelming. I can understand most times why, as I have an alias that "forwards" to the above alias. And things come in that are "infrequent", e.g., yearly seminar newsletters and the like. Consequently I have to train Gmail to know about it. I am saying that it is understandable.
Gmail understands one's email aliases, or relationships if you have Gmail POP, OR, IMAP your non Gmail accounts.
And or use Gmail Domains / Google Apps?
2.) A different problem I have is that my domain registrar butchered my name during a transfer recently. They have suggested "it would be easier to do a change of ownership to fix the problem." I have asked around and it seems Netsol, Godaddy (as an example of fruity ass registrars, i.e., inept =) or dumb registrars will sometimes change the creation date of one's domain at a whim-- I haven't been able to find where in ICANN regs, RFC or elsewhere creation date guidelines, rules are spelled out. Anyone???
Friends tell me that a change in domain creation date matters for folks such as Google/Gmail as one data point in determining the spaminess of an email. IOW, I might look like a newborn spammer. Which is especially important to me considering that I use Gmail to send email that is not from @gmail.com, as I discussed above.
I wonder if SPF records for my domain can be created using the free Gmail Domains / Google Apps?
... clone it too? The NY Times had an article on this very topic 6 months ago, it fails to answer the specific question: What use is cloning the form without the Iphone OS. The experience, the applications, the je ne sais quoi is missing!
If Samsung, LG, Opera can't produce a fab browser how the fuck is some cloner going to do it! To wit, Google SMS is badazz useful, most times, as is goog411, Tellme networks, but even with my Garmin's insufficient database of restaurants, shops, etc. sometimes I just want to whip out a browser and search, visit these dolt web sites for the relevant tidbit of information I need then and there. By extension I have little faith in the rest of a clone iphone.
However, if the Chinese cloners were to extract a copy of the iphone OS and include it, that would be something I'd buy.
Unless one of our Hong Kong or China or Taiwan friends can enlighten how these clones are otherwise superbe I don't get why a China clone is a real option.
If you read the article you'll see you can buy at electronic stores unlocked genuine Iphone easily. That service I'd buy in the USA. Indeedy!
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> The really surprising part of this story, to me, is that Microsoft didn't draft it's own, new license for this.
As always, when it comes to free software principles,
- no binary blob firmware in our OS
- documentation/specifications of chips in your widgets wanted period, NOT vendor drivers---we are not slackers
- we build our own drivers no matter the pain, we don't sell our soul to become lamers
- "free software"* licenses with our free software
OpenBSD years ago, soon after Apache was relicensed for "everyones' benefit" as you now see, jettisoned Apache 2.x from the CVS repository and began maintaining the previosuly licensed Apache 1.x.
As per the new license terms it thusly cannot be called "Apache" hence OBSD calls it httpd!
Theo deRaadt called a spade a spade then. Search the ml's archives for yourself.
> batteries perform badly in the cold
Not to be facile with an answer---super insulation. Our mundane car battery is designed for a paradigm that does not value lossless charge retention.
``It trails in many ways and seems like a far less agile project compared with Webkit and Opera.''
References puleeze.
Whayousay?
They are trying to reach the octopus' persistence of vision. Rate NOT resolution, IOW.
Two things that you can do that will work.
If Mad: call dell and threaten a "charge back!" Vendors hate that and will snap them to attention as nothign else.
If Really Mad: call CC company and have a charge back done. It's all dell's problem then - you are out of there.
Don't feel sorry of someone stole said property en route. That is called insurance, doing business for dell. They have processes to find it, the thief or gain restitution.
The Tesla Roadster is an all-electric vehicle, applying textbook conversions you get kilowatt hours but the main EPA figures on a car window sticker appear in miles, AND they give the Tesla something like 100+ MPG. However, EPA calculations take into account fuel scarceness, availability, fuel efficiency of manufacture and distribution. Thus the EPA MPG numbers become something like 200+ MPG. Check it out.
So it's not a simple KWH conversion. Far from it.
EPA requests input from its research laboratories on what it calls a utility factor. A fudge factor. That takes into account things like the Chevy Volt's ability to complete EPA test cycles not on gasoline power but _plug-in electrical_ power. Then once forty miles of testing deplete the plug-in electrical power in the battery it tests Volt's gasoline usage to charge the batteries, battery-electrical power that then powers the vehicle. The gasoline engine does not power the vehicle directly. Then you might combine the two numbers, add/or ``take into account fuel scarceness, availability, fuel efficiency of manufacture and distribution.'' Then factor in real world energy usage usage for power accessories, AC, lights.
You also have to make the numbers historically reasonable, comparable to past present future vehicles.
It means the reasonable (simple? you thought) conversion is a complex calculation fudge taking into account
-diesel cars
-gasoline cars
-flex gasoline-ethanol cars
-hybrid gas-electric cars
-plug-in electric cars
-plug-in electric-gasoline cars
-fuel-cell cars
-future development powertrain cars
BTW. ``Fuel scarceness, availability, fuel efficiency of manufacture and distribution'' favorable numbers means it costs me less to fill up, that is to say more money stays in my wallet.
If I can travel X miles at $0.02/mile on plug-in cheaper electricity* vs. same miles for $0.09 mile on more expensive gasoline/diesel that is ... .
* And NOT worry about range with power trains as in the Prius or Volt.
** The Volt is for sale in 2010 but EPA testing new methodologies including the Volt are ongoing.
[ Car anology ]
I am sitting inside my car with the radio on. AHA! My car has been stolen.
tzhuge:
Since you are in the neighborhood already: How does Christianity address the not going to hell of those born before Jesus Christ (b.c.)? That subject just came up with my bf last month and once again I cursed my absence from philosophy class that day.
I get how buddhism, reincarnation, and population growth are reconciled, but the above? What's the wikipedia page I should read?
The below is from http://blogs.lexar.com/mattbrandon/2006/08/tighter_securit.html . No longer online unfortunately.
In essence: guns must be checked into a special routine (a la registered mail), put under lock and key. IOW, handed over, inspected, locked into a case under lock and key, taken away from you, returned to you upon arrival. As it is a gun tracking system routine the utmost importance is placed on accountability. Stolen guns are unacceptable to the TSA system. The tricks are, a starter's pistol qualifies as a gun and a license is not needed in the USA for one, and two the case containing the gun can be large enough to hold your laptop, or camera, etc. too! :-) Read one of the 2006 0r 2007 cryptograms by Bruce Schneier for the original tip.
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[ QUOTE ]
One note on using TSA rules to your advantage.
Weapons that travel MUST be in a hard case, must be declared upon check-in, and MUST BE LOCKED by a TSA official.
A "weapons" is defined as a rifle, shotgun, pistol, airgun, and STARTER PISTOL. Yes, starter pistols - those little guns that fire blanks at track and swim meets - are considered weapons...and do NOT have to be registered in any state in the United States.
I have a starter pistol for all my cases. All I have to do upon check-in is tell the airline ticket agent that I have a weapon to declare...I'm given a little card to sign, the card is put in the case, the case is given to a TSA official who takes my key and locks the case, and gives my key back to me.
That's the procedure. The case is extra-tracked...TSA does not want to lose a weapons case. This reduces the chance of the case being lost to virtually zero.
It's a great way to travel with camera gear...I've been doing this since Dec 2001 and have had no problems whatsoever.
Hope it works for you...
John
Posted by: John Arnold | August 16, 2006 at 08:52 PM
[ END QUOTE ]
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don't you wish it had the settings:
Temporarily Show Flash for Site X
Temporarily Show All Flash for This Site
Adblock style?!
Visiting an automobile site like bmwusa is a flashblock exercise on clicking every new page, or digging into the settings afterward to remove the permanent permission you were forced into.
> car tuned up on a regular basis.
My Honda Civic, most modern cars, needs tuning at 100,000 miles. Or 10 years, I think, whichever comes first.
I would like to know if Consumer Reports finds fuel additives/injector cleaners such as STP Fuel System Cleaner or injector cleaner to be useful ( http://www.stp.com/fuel_additives.html ). Anyone have access to the online CR and can tell me what they think of STP?
> make sure that the injectors are clean,
> Injectors are clean [but people dirty them by] buying cheap gas, or driving their car too aggressively, and over time gunk builds up on the injector nozzles
You want to keep your combustion chamber, valve ports, valves, etc. as free of carbon or other deposits as you can. You should buy quality gasoline! But how?
*** What you want is gasoline that is Top Tier Gas certified ***:
http://www.toptiergas.com/
[quote]
TOP TIER Detergent Gasoline is the premier standard for gasoline performance. Six of the world's top automakers, BMW, General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and Audi recognize that the current EPA minimum detergent requirements do not go far enough to ensure optimal engine performance.
Since the minimum additive performance standards were first established by EPA in 1995, most gasoline marketers have actually reduced the concentration level of detergent additive in their gasoline by up to 50%. As a result, the ability of a vehicle to maintain stringent Tier 2 emission standards have been hampered, leading to engine deposits which can have a big impact on in-use emissions and driver satisfaction.
[end quote]
I found it by reading my Honda manual and seeing it's recommendation.
Since Google SMS does not offer an easy way to give feedback on their product pages they will hear my gripes here. In the past ~3 weeks I have noticed changes in their SMS search results -- FOR THE M-U-C-H WORSE!
Google SMS
==========
* [lowes in 11219] -> Google SMS had formerly understood a search request *within* a specific neighborhood in NYC. It spat out appropriate guesses like: If you meant Lowe's near Brooklyn NY here are results 1, 2 and 3 over two SMS messages. It was fuzzy and accurate. It worked beautifully.
Note that I use zip codes in searches as it is easier to type a 5 digit zip code to specify a FOCUSED location instead of a long and less focused section by neighborhood name. To wit, 11219 vs Borough Park vs Brooklyn NY. See?
However, the results recently are awful, non fuzzy-logic, with 1 or 2 results instead of the previous version's of 3 per search. Oh, and google now adds a lot of useless self adverting for their product in the guise of tips. It's the coup the grace.
So. Recently a friend asked me from her mobile while on the road where the local Lowe's was in Brooklyn. I know how to get there but I needed an address to give her to enter into her GPS -- GPS databases are so lacking so frequently that I rely heavily on Google SMS to get the latest locations for businesses. So I sent Google SMS [lowes in 11219].
** That used to tell Google SMS: search in zip 11219, or in Brooklyn NY, or in NYC, or in NYC Metropolitan including New Jersey. It didn't work however. In essence I wasted time, text money, finger calories, battery life, grief, and a good deal of patience and good will that Google will not be seeing anytime soon.
I sent half a dozen permutations of my search to get a valid result other than "check your spelling", for I know Google had the result. It had given them to me in the past.
I got a valid result when I thought, wtf! do they not understand zip codes anymore, and typed [lowes in brooklyn ny]. That worked!
Google Maps
===========
WTF have you done to it?
* Clicking on each driving direction used to bring a popup-GIF of the maneuver. No longer. We get huge Street View Flash photos instead! No. NO. NO!
* One could rearrange destinations by dragging them around on the left pane. No longer! NO!
* One could collapse LONG directions by clicking on a plus (+) previously. No longer. NO! BTW, Google does not tell the user when it makes assumptions about the destinations. To wit, I entered [10038 to fair view nj] and I had to scroll all the way to the bottom of long instructions to see that Maps had substituted something like Fair Avenue in Connecticut. WTF? I meant "fairview nj" apparently, I discovered after much mucking about. NO!
* After splining via-points by hand one could right-click and "remove this point (spline)". No longer! It magnifies instead! Nooo.
* I wont reiterate my other previous gripes about Maps.
* Oh, I hate that you have complicated the from/to entry box interface! Simplicity! Not complexity.
* Ah fuggit. Add calculate tolls, scenic routes options!
* Ah fuggit. Add calculate tolls, scenic routes options!!
* Ah fuggit. Add calculate tolls, scenic routes options!!!
Seriously, you guys have driven me to use Mapquest more and more.
> I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property
You mean, "Ponca City, We Love You," right.
If you really want to support the artist, DON'T buy the CD and then go see a concert. Buy a t-shirt, even.
Fixed that for you.
Download the track/s then send the band a check for their good looks, straight teeth, whatever, anything that will shield them from a possible claim down the line from disbursing a cut to the record companies.
I look for a band run site, not record co. operated, and an address to mail a check:
Yo, Slash, Edge, Duke here's that money I borrowed for that round of coffee when we were kids.Oh, BTW, nice band.
> never click on embedded ads (the 3 or 4 times I did, it was on accident.)
Everyone acts as though they live in a vacuum! Everyone bewlievs that they are truly inured to advertising. "Honda pissed me off so bad with their superbowl ads that I will never buy a car from them!" *harumph* But, multiply that rage by 10, 100, realistically 1,000 vendor ads and pretty soon you've forgotten how viscerally Honda irked you.
"Yeah, man, but I am different, I really do remember." Really? Think now, have you really stayed away from e-v-e-r-y seller that has ever ticked you off? Over time the brand name stays with you even when you can't stand it. Time heals all wounds. After all, you're not considering much less buying Acme Cars, Zenith Sneakers, generic condoms -- your mind automatically filters your gaze onto the familiar.
To your point. Till recently whenever I googled anything (with Adblock Plus/E.H.H. turned off permanently on Google) I avoided clicking on the ads as I thought it unfair to the vendor to make it pay when the 1st link typically was for that vendor. But lately, I decided, WTF, when I need a car and Audi, BMW, Honda, Toyota are so expensive that I should care to save them money, and at Google's expense? I now click the ad links with gusto! Google ads, as have been rightly attested to over the years, are useful.
Apropos to your point, I have only once made a purchase directly attributable to google's ads. Invariably, I Google my need or the vendor, visit site, research selections, choose selection, research prices, quality, etc. Only once was A transaction made same day, same session, same cookie. But I bought thanks to Google's ad. Google was the entry point, and the vector for my purchase. No doubt about it.
You are an anomaly, and frankly I don't believe that you are not influenced by ads in one form or another. For accordingly, you know all brands, in all fields, from the outset, and you need no guidance from a search ad? Right. You don't know infinite number of people in all fields of life to have an omniscient awareness.
As much as I bitch about intrusive ads when I examine my behavior I am aware that they are inescapably influential on my, your's (their's?) purchases, to one degree or another. Living in denial doesn't help you.
Why does Google NOT allow you to use all their services securely, i.e., TLS/encrypted???
Last I looked only Gmail and Gcal are able to be encrypted: httpS.
Why, with their ginourmous resources cpu power should be trivial. WTF?
And at least in most Europe and the USA legal issues, snooping should be moot.
https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1
> a feature I wasn't even aware of until FF3
Profiles. What about profiles? Are they made ergonomic in FF 3?
Safari has a browse-privately toggle. I don't want to know where I have been, my roomate, or even my dog sometimes. And they feel the same, so that feature would be happenin'!
In FF2 it's clunky now.
Within days after the release of Firefox 3, over 40% of my visitors had switched to it. Another ~50% use the newest 2.0.x version.
Would a large portion of those 40.9% not current, would they be FF 2.x users? Purposely not upgrading?
That is the case with me: I lagged to up from 1x to 2x, and now from 2x to 3x. Let them work the bugs out, up their plugins, etc., man. And maybe downgrade some of the 3x features I read are driving some batty around here. Don't assume the worst is what am saying: poll takers, survey makers, mouth off shooters. ^.^
Am I right in saying that having mobiles on contract is more common in the USA which is what makes dealing with providers such a nightmare?
Yes. On this side of the puddle, phones are heavily subsidized... To the point ...
Please stop with that myth.
Furthermore did you know, that if spammers are hassling your line, stock texting spamming, etc., or your ex gf is hassling you, or some arse is hassling you you have to take it for changing your number is a conversion and will lock you into contract, extend your contract? Or, if you change your address that is another conversion and you could placed into a contract! On and on. It is a game that cell companies.
So it is not about the "subsidized phone!" I did not want one, nor was one going to be offered to me if I hit one of these hidden, *untold* land mines. I even asked, "wait a minute, you telling me that if I had not asked that with 2 conversions you would have locked me into contract BUT you would not have OFFERED me a new cellphone? 'That is correct, sir.'
This piece is 2 years old. Do you, or does anyone else have a good link to the current cellular tax rates that states charge???
That doesn't excuse his vote for it, and I wish he had voted against it, but giving McCain and the right an easy attack point ("Look! He's soft on the terrerrsts!") probably isn't something he can afford at this point
I love the guy here on /. a couple of years ago (I wish he would read this post and say it himself or point out his post of a few years back) who wrote, and I paraphrase:
During my life I had not understood the stereotype of a bunch of ornery OLD guys, outside a grocery store, or an old porch railing against politicians, or Washington "whore" politicians.
A few facts are clear to me now that I am older. But all can be boiled down to one axiom.
All politicians are whores. Left, Right and Center.
Barack Obama refused negative campaigning, admirable. It cost him during the primaries and yet he gambled on. Admirable. But now as you say, he is going Clintonian. To wit, s/he will say what ever it takes win. I do not blame him, Republicans will say anything to win, as the end justifies the means to that bunch off assholes! Anyone remember the Jon Stewart-Tucker Carlson CNN gem.
So Obama seems brave, and Obama may be brave and principled, and Obama may be a leader to speak the truth and lead from truth but who knows??? I fell for that during Bill Clinton 1992! I rationalized: Clinton was just saying that to get elected but he will govern honestly. Clinton gave the nation the DMCA amongst other interest group non sense. He was in love with Hollywood -- see Bloodworth-Thomason's?
Forward to 2000, a carpet bagger spouse rolls into New York, claims the right to run for US Senate having never lived there, wins. Within months of election the New York Times runs insider sources stories describing the laying of groundwork for Senator Clinton's presidency run post her next election to the US Senate!
IOW, all politicians are whores. The longer I live the truer it is.
But there is one guy who I give kudos. He put his money where his mouth is. Russ Feingold, US Senate, Democrat.
So what am I saying? Obama seems like JF Kennedy. Odd are against it though. But you know what:
1.) What are you talking about. Wrong, wrong. I do precisely what you say I should not do and Gmail filters UCE nicely.
I own a domain, on which I have one public email alias, that is 8 years old. It had/gets spam/UCE. Gmail POPs that account/alias for me. Gmail filters the spam quite nicely!
It is not perfect, occasionally I have to "report spam", train Gmail, but nothing overwhelming. I can understand most times why, as I have an alias that "forwards" to the above alias. And things come in that are "infrequent", e.g., yearly seminar newsletters and the like. Consequently I have to train Gmail to know about it. I am saying that it is understandable.
Gmail understands one's email aliases, or relationships if you have Gmail POP, OR, IMAP your non Gmail accounts.
And or use Gmail Domains / Google Apps?
2.) A different problem I have is that my domain registrar butchered my name during a transfer recently. They have suggested "it would be easier to do a change of ownership to fix the problem." I have asked around and it seems Netsol, Godaddy (as an example of fruity ass registrars, i.e., inept =) or dumb registrars will sometimes change the creation date of one's domain at a whim-- I haven't been able to find where in ICANN regs, RFC or elsewhere creation date guidelines, rules are spelled out. Anyone???
Friends tell me that a change in domain creation date matters for folks such as Google/Gmail as one data point in determining the spaminess of an email. IOW, I might look like a newborn spammer. Which is especially important to me considering that I use Gmail to send email that is not from @gmail.com, as I discussed above.
I wonder if SPF records for my domain can be created using the free Gmail Domains / Google Apps?
CTRL + ENTER => appends .COM .NET .ORG
.CX instead.
.COM <----------<<<< This is your choice obviously.
SHFT + ENTER => appends
CTRL + SHFT + ENTER => appends
I wonder where this is configurable? I might want to map one of these to
BTW, I do like this for fast browsing:
CTRL L
CTRL + ENTER => appends
... clone it too? The NY Times had an article on this very topic 6 months ago, it fails to answer the specific question: What use is cloning the form without the Iphone OS. The experience, the applications, the je ne sais quoi is missing!
If Samsung, LG, Opera can't produce a fab browser how the fuck is some cloner going to do it! To wit, Google SMS is badazz useful, most times, as is goog411, Tellme networks, but even with my Garmin's insufficient database of restaurants, shops, etc. sometimes I just want to whip out a browser and search, visit these dolt web sites for the relevant tidbit of information I need then and there. By extension I have little faith in the rest of a clone iphone.
However, if the Chinese cloners were to extract a copy of the iphone OS and include it, that would be something I'd buy.
Unless one of our Hong Kong or China or Taiwan friends can enlighten how these clones are otherwise superbe I don't get why a China clone is a real option.
If you read the article you'll see you can buy at electronic stores unlocked genuine Iphone easily. That service I'd buy in the USA. Indeedy!